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Cleaning as Exercise Part 1: Posture from a Seated Position

Start by practicing good posture!
The distance or path of each movement is only 1/2 inch to 2 inches at the most:
feel how this alone begins to strengthen your belly, torso, and back.
1. ribcage stretches up, 2. chin and neck back gently toward spine,
3. ribcage pulls forward from spine, 4. belly/abdomen pushes/presses toward spine.
We're working toward shifting of weight and lunges used in cleaning...
CLM

Intro to Introduction to Cleaning as Exercise

Thoughts on unexpected outcomes...
acknowledgement that time is the ingredient necessary to
see things clearly.
Please share with middle, high-school, and college age students,
or a person living on their own for the first time...
CLM, cleaning again, and always!

Fewer...better! An equation for keeping your kitchen uncluttered.

1 of each: 1 cup,  1 glass, 1  large plate, 1 small plate,  1 bowl
1 spoon big and small, a single fork, a knife!
A way to build a healthy habit of preventing "accumulation."
Coming soon: cleaning dishes without using too much water.
Please share CLM with middle school, high school, and college students.  :>
Do you know anyone recovering from trauma?
Please share CLM with that person too!

Ingredients for a Quiet Home

Clean Life Muse podcast was away for several weeks...
starting up again with this:
It's a joy to dwell in a quiet home!
bathwater for the home:
a lightweight bucket or pan, warm or hot water, a little 7th Generation Dishwashing Liquid (clementine, lemon/lime, or orchid), drops of essential oil of your choice. use on floors, counters, furniture, doors, in bathrooms.

Someone Else's Home

An homage to my very kind landlords!
 

Thoughts on thoughts and the tongue at work in the mind as you clean

A short consideration on harmonizing your thoughts as you clean.
 

Good morning!

Short consideration on making our beds, the first task of the day!
 

Giving your kitchen a bath!

It's natural to think of giving ourselves a bath...but what about bathing the home, the shelter our bodies inhabit? In this episode we'll start by bathing the kitchen.
The actual instruction begin at the kitchen sink at 5:22   : >
Seeing the act of cleaning as a form of self careinstead of a burdensome chore is l i b e r a t i n g !

Sink, freeze, squeegie

Baths are comforting and restoring to us,
but what about bathing our homes, the shelter our bodies inhabit?
In this episode, a prologue to "Giving your Kitchen a Bath" hear how
to keep the kitchen clean (maintain it), how to use your freezer to assist
with a fresh kitchen, and more uses for the versatile squeegie!
 
 

Intro to giving your home a bath, part 3 : >

We give ourselves a bath, why not bathe the home too?
In this intro you'll be introduced to the "sink flower" : >
It can be used in the tub and renamed a "tub flower"  : >